Home Brew Stuff 5307 The Carboy Carrier, Black, 1.5

Bought this Brew Hauler a little while back to aid in moving my heavy, full of beer, glass carboys. I have to say that it works awesome! I usually brew with a friend and it makes transporting the beer from one area to another smooth. We are each able to grab a handle and move the carboy around with ease! Please do yourself a favor on brew day and purchase this, I would be lost without mine :)UPDATE: I was carrying my beer to the basement with my hauler and I thought that I heard something ripping so I set my carboy down. Thank Goodness I did, because one of the handles stitching ripped out and I almost dropped 5 gallons of Hefeweizen all over my deck! Please take the time and inspect yours as well. I decided to sew the handle back on being that I have a sewing machine, and I discovered that all stitching was starting to fail. I restitched everything, and hopefully I will never have a problem with it again. Hopefully the company will notice this fault, and pay closer attention to this.SECOND UPDATE: I contacted the company and was glad to hear that these were manufactured in the gold ol' USA! I told them the story of how my strap tore, I repaired it, and they sent me some seriously AWESOME swag for my time! You cannot go wrong with this company or their product as they will 100% stand behind what they sell!

This piece of junk cost me a 5 gal carboy, $200 in spilled wine, and 10 hours of cleanup as the wine seeped under the PVC flooring in our garage. Thought the idea was to protect one's back, not hurt it by heavy labor. I was very lucky I escaped without any major cuts by the glass shrapnels flying everywhere.In my case the handles held up but the issue was with the vertical straps. They move around freely along the horizontal straps. I guess the idea is to accommodate carboys of different sizes but it makes for a flimsy product. The end result for me was that the space between two straps became too large and the carboy slipped through. Obviously, the danger of this happening increases for full carboys.I've been making wine for twenty years now. In that time I broke only one carboy and that was when using this hauler. Needless to say, I'm not happy. Good tools are great but badly designed tools are a waste of time and money.

I bought one of these because I was tired of lifting 5-6 gallons of wort into my fermentation chamber (swamp cooler setup). I also noticed that even though I use PET carboys, my hands can lose grip and drop the wort everywhere. Worse would be if I dropped it after it fermented and I lost actual beer. Sad.This is a fairly simple design but one person did mention that it would be nice if there was a second belt below the first to keep the straps in place. There is minimum fidgeting that needs to be done but it is just enough to make you think the second belt is a great idea.This is one of those purchases that you may think is silly and not worth even the $10 price tag, but it is. I cannot tell you how much easier it is to move carboys around especially on brew day after I've racked from my brew kettle to my carboy and I have to walk the carboy into the house. I do carry the carboy low still and almost waddle too and from but that is because I read about a strap breaking and I worry. At best, if a strap snaps I assume I'm close enough to the ground where I may save my beer. I don't think the straps are defective and it is possible the reviewer just got a one in a million dud, but you can never be too safe.I had one and ended up getting another as a gift. These also seem to do fine if I leave them submerged in water, which is how I control the temp of my fermentation. I appreciate that there are no metal parts for that reason alone.

Just what the Doctor ordered. Allows you to move your carboy safely. I didn't like the looks of the handles that attach at the lip of the bottle. They look like they could slip and that would not be a good situation with $50 dollars worth of glass and $40-50 dollars worth of precious nectar at stake. The straps cradle the carboy and are inherently safer than the handles that grip the top of the bottle. The Brew Hauler arrived ahead of schedule and was easy to figure out and install. Now I have raised my in progress brew to 12 gallons and I am about to increase by half again. Soon I will be going "off the grid" and be done with the bilge water that passes for beer at the store. Love my new hobby but it has turned me into a bit of a beer snob. Never knew what I was missing until I started making my own.

I was a bit skeptical with this carrier to begin with but, I decided to give it a try anyways. I received it pretty quickly and put it on my empty carboy. Got all the straps situated and set where they looked right, then I went to tighten the strap and lock the clasp(which is NOT the one shown in pictures) and it instantly cracked when flipping the clasp over to lock it. I didn’t even bother adding any liquid to the carboy as I’m certain it would just fall apart if I did. Ended up getting a refund for it which is nice, but disappointed as I had hoped it would be at least a little better.

Not a fan. This could have been made a lot better. The straps are short and a pain to get around my carboy (glass, straight-wall). Once it was around, there was only less than 1/2" of strap to "catch" on the latch... and the latch was sub-par as well. I worried it would pop open. Finally, once I fully filled it with water, one of the handles ripped the stitching. Add in that on my carboy, everything ALWAYS slid down the sides, and I could not loosen any further to get it strapped on, I do not recommend this carrier.

I have a chest freezer that I use to control my fermentation temperature and I always feared to drop one of my carboy when I transfer them. With this carrier, its a fear of the past! I fit very well around my 5 gallons carboy, is easy to clean and easy to remove and reinstall if required. I would recommend anybody that carry glass carboy for more than 1 meter to get one of these.

The clamp to hold it together works fine but makes me nervous so I was very uneasy about using it but after 3 uses I have no complaints.

After doing some online reading about carboy breakage and the dangers of carrying them around by hand, I decided to invest in a few of these. The straps are heavy duty enough that I'm not worried about anything failing while lugging carboys around. Way less awkward and way safer than carrying them around by hand. Even without the safety issue, I think the ease of carrying carboys is worth the investment.

I liked the idea but i use a hoist so i lengthened the handles to reach the hook which hangs just above the neck .So if you use a hoist you can do the same or make your own from scratch

Fits standard sized carboy. Allows safe easy lifts of carboy when full.Shipped quickly.